O God, who wert pleased that in the Apostolic Priesthood these Thy servants should be invested with pontifical or sacerdotal dignity: grant also, we beseech Thee, that they may be joined for evermore to the fellowship of that Priesthood in heaven…

Let the watchful care of blessed Charles, Thy Confessor and Pontiff, continue to be a protection unto Thy Church: that even as his pastoral solicitude brought him glory, so his intercession may ever keep us fervent in Thy love…

Lord God, You have written in my heart a longing to love and to be loved, and You call each of us to make a sincere gift of ourselves. If it is Your will that I marry, lead me to the person You have prepared for me, and prepare me to be a worthy spouse…

Lord God, You created man and woman in Your image and joined them in a covenant of love. We thank You for bringing us together and for the joy of our engagement. Bless the promise we have made to one another and the life we hope to build…

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connexion between persons…

Lord, teach me to be generous. Teach me to serve Thee as Thou deservest; to give and not to count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that I do Thy will. Amen.

O God, Who dost will not the death of the sinner, but rather that he be converted and live, grant, we beseech Thee, by the intercession of the Blessed Mary, ever Virgin, and of all the Saints, an increase of laborers for Thy Church, both at home and abroad…

O glorious Patriarch, Saint Ignatius, we beseech thee to obtain for us from God a heart filled with a generous love of Him, and a will wholly conformed to His holy will. Obtain for us also the grace to labor for the greater glory of God, and for the salvation of souls. Amen.